title: [Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis].
abstract: Whipple's disease is a rare infectious disease caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. Usually the course of the disease is characterized by fever, diarrhea, weight loss and polyarthritis. We report on a case with a 10-year course of the disease with endocarditis, myocarditis and involvement of the bone marrow but with negative histological results of the small intestine.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pathologie und Molekularpathologie, Kanzlerstr. 2-6, 75175, Pforzheim, Deutschland, Michaela.Fritz@Pathologie-Pforzheim.de.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schlinke
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fayyazi
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000473:pathology; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000473:pathology*; D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D010503:Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000473:pathology; D054851:Tropheryma; D008061:Whipple Disease / Q000473:pathology*